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087 Rhetoric and the Sophists

The History of Ancient Greece

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The History of the Sophists

The Sophists, like the Physiologoy, challenged conventional beliefs. They were state-sanctioned nomos that forbade things like burglary. Aspasia of Melitus is believed to have been one of the first women to engage in private and public rhetoric instruction as a kind of Sophist. Even youths who only studied rhetoric would still learn from a good Sophist.

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